Miss Universe 2011

Miss Universe 2011
Miss Universe 2011, Leila Lopes
Date	12 September 2011
Presenters	Natalie Morales, Andy Cohen, Jeannie Mai, Shandi Finnessey
Venue	Citibank Hall, São Paulo, Brazil
Broadcaster	NBC, Telemundo
Entrants	89
Placements	16
Withdrawals	Norway, Zambia
Returns	Cayman Islands, Chile, Estonia, Montenegro, Portugal, St. Lucia, Turks & Caicos, Vietnam
Winner	Leila Lopes  Angola
Congeniality	Nikolina Lončar  Montenegro
Best National Costume	Sheldry Sáez  Panama
Photogenic	Ronnia Fornstedt  Sweden

Miss Universe 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held on 12 September 2011 at Citibank Hall, São Paulo, Brazil. Leila Lopes of Angola was crowned the winner by outgoing titleholder Ximena Navarrete of Mexico, becoming the fourth African country to win the title after South Africa in 1978, Namibia in 1992 and Botswana in 1999.^[1] Contestants from 89 countries and territories participated in this year's pageant, surpassing the previous record of 86 contestants in 2006.

Results

Miss Universe 2011 participating countries and results

Placements

Final Results	Contestant
Miss Universe 2011	Angola – Leila Lopes
1st runner-up	Ukraine – Olesya Stefanko
2nd runner-up	Brazil – Priscila Machado
3rd runner-up	Philippines – Shamcey Supsup
4th runner-up	China – Luo Zilin
Top 10	Australia – Scherri-Lee Biggs  Costa Rica – Johanna Solano  France – Laury Thilleman  Panama – Sheldry Sáez  Portugal – Laura Gonçalves
Top 16	Colombia – Catalina Robayo  Kosovo – Afërdita Dreshaj  Netherlands – Kelly Weekers  Puerto Rico – Viviana Ortiz  USA – Alyssa Campanella  Venezuela – Vanessa Gonçalves

Contestants

Albania – Xhesika Berberi Angola – Leila Lopes Argentina – Natalia Rodríguez Aruba – Gillain Berry Australia – Scherri-Lee Biggs Bahamas – Anastagia Pierre Belgium – Justine de Jonckheere Bolivia – Olivia Pinheiro Botswana – Larona Kgabo Brazil – Priscila Machado British Virgin Islands – Sheroma Hodge Canada – Chelsae Durocher Cayman Islands – Cristin Alexander Chile – Vanessa Ceruti China – Luo Zilin Colombia – Catalina Robayo Costa Rica – Johanna Solano Croatia – Natalija Prica Curaçao – Evalina van Putten Cyprus – Andri Karantoni Czech Republic – Jitka Nováčková Denmark – Sandra Amer Dominican Republic – Dalia Fernández Ecuador – Claudia Schiess Egypt – Sara El-Khouly El Salvador – Mayra Aldana Estonia – Madli Vilsar Finland – Pia Pakarinen France – Laury Thilleman Georgia – Eka Gurtskaia Germany – Valeria Bystritskaia Ghana – Yayra Nego Great Britain – Chloe-Beth Morgan Greece – Iliana Papageorgiou Guam – Shayna Afaisen Guatemala – Alejandra Barillas Guyana – Kara Lord Haiti – Anedie Azael  Honduras – Keylin Gómez Hungary – Betta Lipcsei India – Vasuki Sunkavalli Indonesia – Nadine Alexandra Ireland – Aoife Hannon Israel – Kim Edri Italy – Elisa Torrini

Jamaica – Shakira Martin Japan – Maria Kamiyama  Kazakhstan – Valeriya Aleinikova Korea – Jung So-ra Kosovo – Afërdita Dreshaj Lebanon – Yara Khoury Mikhael| Malaysia – Deborah Priya Henry  Mauritius – Laetitia Darche Mexico – Karín Ontiveros Montenegro – Nikolina Lončar Netherlands – Kelly Weekers New Zealand – Priyani Puketapu Nicaragua – Adriana Dorn Nigeria – Sophie Gemal Panama – Sheldry Sáez Paraguay – Alba Riquelme Peru – Natalie Vértiz Philippines – Shamcey Supsup Poland – Rozalia Mancewicz Portugal – Laura Gonçalves Puerto Rico – Viviana Ortiz Romania – Larisa Popa Russia – Natalia Gantimurova Serbia – Anja Šaranović Singapore – Valerie Lim Slovak Republic – Dagmar Kolesárová Slovenia – Ema Jagodič South Africa – Bokang Montjane Spain – Paula Guilló Sri Lanka – Stephanie Siriwardhana  St. Lucia – Joy-Ann Biscette Sweden – Ronnia Fornstedt Switzerland – Kerstin Cook Tanzania – Nelly Kamwelu Thailand – Chanyasorn Sakornchan Trinidad & Tobago – Gabrielle Walcott Turkey – Melisa Aslı Pamuk Turks & Caicos – Easher Parker Ukraine – Olesya Stefanko Uruguay – Maria Fernanda Semino USA – Alyssa Campanella U.S. Virgin Islands – Alexandrya Evans Venezuela – Vanessa Gonçalves Vietnam – Vũ Thị Hoàng My

Judges

Telecast judges

• Hélio Castroneves
• Connie Chung
• Isabeli Fontana
• Vivica A. Fox
• Adrienne Maloof-Nassif
• Lea Salonga
• Farouk Shami
• Amelia Vega – Miss Universe 2003 from Dominican Republic
• Italo Zanzi

Preliminary judges

• BJ Coleman^[2]
• Francesca Romana Diana^[3]
• Ana Paula Junqueira^[4]
• Scott Lazerson^[5]
• Matheus Mazzafera^[6]
• Jimmy Nguyen^[7]
• Lara Spotts^[8]

Returning countries and territories

Last competed in 2002:  Portugal Last competed in 2006:  Chile Last competed in 2007:  St. Lucia

Last competed in 2008:  Turks & Caicos Last competed in 2009:  Cayman Islands  Estonia  Montenegro  Vietnam

Other pageant notes

Replacements

• Curaçao – Evalina van Putten replaced Monifa Jansen since Jansen did not meet the age requirements stipulated by the Miss Universe Organization. Jansen was born in March 1993.^[9]
• El Salvador – Mayra Aldana replaced Alejandra Ochoa after Alejandra suffered from chronic respiratory illness and was not able to compete.^[10]

Designations

•  Denmark – Sandra Amer was appointed as Miss Universe Denmark 2011 after a casting call took place.
•  Egypt – Sara El-Khouly was appointed as Miss Universe Egypt 2011 after no national pageant was held due to the political crisis.
•  Greece – Iliana Papageorgiou was appointed by the Star Hellas organization to represent Greece at Miss Universe 2011.
•  Guatemala – Alejandra Barillas was appointed as Miss Universe Guatemala 2011 in a special ceremony. Barillas was the original representative to Miss Universe 2010 but due to an injury she could not attend. One of her runners-up (Jessica Scheel) took her place.
•  Kazakhstan – Valeriya Aleinikova was appointed to represent Kazakhstan after the Miss Kazakhstan organization dropped the franchise and a new organization took over.
•  Montenegro – Nikolina Loncar was appointed to represent Montenegro after she could not compete in 2010 because she did not meet the minimum age requirement.
•  Vietnam – Vũ Thị Hoàng My was appointed to represent Vietnam after the pageant organizers were unable to host a beauty pageant. The permission was granted by the Ministry of Culture of Vietnam, which authorizes the international representation of the nation in events of any kind.

Withdrawals

•  Norway – The Miss Norway 2011 pageant was held on 28 August, since the date of arrival of contestants is on 18 August, They decided that Sara Nicole Andersen, Miss Universe Norway 2011 to send on Miss Universe 2012. They officially withdrew at Miss Universe 2011.
•  Zambia – No contest held.

References

1. "Miss Angola Leila Lopes is Miss Universe 2011!". BeautyMania.biz. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
2. Site by: ILS. "Members". Missuniverse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
3. Site by: ILS. "Members". Missuniverse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
4. Site by: ILS. "Members". Missuniverse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
5. Site by: ILS. "Members". Missuniverse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
6. Site by: ILS. "Members". Missuniverse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
7. Site by: ILS. "Members". Missuniverse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
8. Site by: ILS. "Members". Missuniverse.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
9. "Evalina van Putten is the new Miss Curaçao Universe".
10. "elsalvador.com, Mayra Aldana representará a El Salvador en Miss Universo 2011". Elsalvador.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.

External links

• Official Miss Universe website